Repeaters Patents (Class 375/211)
  • Patent number: 11930486
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a scheduling entity determines a first direction of a backhaul link traffic between a first scheduling entity and a second scheduling entity, and determines a second direction of an access link traffic between the scheduling entity and a user equipment (UE) based on the first direction of the backhaul link traffic to reduce potential interference caused by the access link traffic. The scheduling entity transmits or receives the access link traffic in the second direction utilizing at least one of a same transmission resource of the backhaul link traffic. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11792833
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A repeater may apply a frequency translation and a phase rotation adjustment to a transmitted signal to avoid radio frequency interference. For instance, wireless repeater may receive a signal from a first device on a first carrier frequency. The wireless repeater may identify one or more interfering signals affecting the reception or transmission of the signal. The wireless repeater may then perform a frequency translation from the first carrier frequency to the second carrier frequency, and may also apply a phase rotation adjustment corresponding to the frequency translation. The wireless repeater may retransmit the signal including the phase rotation adjustment over the second carrier frequency to a second device in the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Raju Hormis, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Ozge Koymen
  • Patent number: 11741074
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing automated user interface testing with integrated machine learning models. Systems and methods for detecting and preemptively correcting flow path errors are disclosed. Systems and methods for minimizing user input and optimizing testing efficiency are disclosed. A result dashboard is disclosed in which testing results and errors are displayed and a user may interact with interactive testing reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Fidelity Information Services, LLC
    Inventors: Harsh Sharma, Yogendra Singh Katheria, Seerajudeen Sheik Ahamed, Rajiv Ramanjani, Shefali Garg
  • Patent number: 11705960
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave repeater may be provided to cover a radio shaded area, in a system for the millimeter-wave repeater. The millimeter-wave repeater may provide a service by changing a signal of a millimeter-wave band to an intermediate frequency band, and then changing the signal to the millimeter-wave band again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ADRF KOREA, Inc.
    Inventors: Chan Ki Cho, Baek yong Park
  • Patent number: 11672032
    Abstract: Establishment of integrated links comprising integrated wireless backhaul communications links and access communications links is facilitated by transmitting multiplexed sync signals to enable synchronization between the relay transmission point devices, and using a random access channel procedure to complete the establishment. The integrated wireless backhaul communications links and access communications links can be maintained by measuring channel characteristics of the backhaul communications links using a measurement reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTETTECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas David Novlan, Milap Majmundar, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11652514
    Abstract: System and methods for wirelessly transporting data from a first communication node to a second communication node using different combinations of beams and on a packet-by-packet basis. Packets associated with a certain Quality of Service (QoS) and/or latency requirements are transported between the first and the second nodes using a first transmission path, while packets associated with a different QoS/latency requirements, are transported between the first and the second nodes using another transmission path, in which in order to switch from the first path to the second path, the system adjusts appropriate beam directions in real-time, and so as to result in fast-switching beam configurations that dynamically change in accordance to packet movement in the network. Latency-critical packets are directed to the faster path, while other packets are directed to the slower path, so as to prevent network congestion and optimize overall network performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Juganu Ltd.
    Inventors: Pinchas Ziv, Alexander Bilchinsky, Dani Fichman, Gal Zuckerman
  • Patent number: 11605887
    Abstract: Technologies directed to binning methods for electronically steered transmit phased arrays with amplitude tapering are described. One communication system includes a first and a second set of power amplifiers. The first set operates with a first peak power level and the second set operates with a second peak power level that is lower than the first peak power level. A digital beamforming (DBF) device sends a first set of signals to the first set of power amplifiers causing the first set of power amplifiers to operate in a first range. The DBF also sends a second set of signals to the second set of power amplifiers causing the second set of power amplifiers to operate in a second range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sunny Sharma, Kaushik Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11582748
    Abstract: A method of transmitting uplink data is provided. The method includes establishing connections with a first serving cell and a second serving cell, determining, by a user equipment (UE), a time period for a device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal communication via the second serving cell, determining, by the UE and based on an uplink grant received via the first serving cell, a first subframe associated with an uplink signal to an evolved NodeB (eNB) associated with the first serving cell, and in response to determining that the first subframe overlaps in time with the time period, refraining from transmitting the uplink signal in the first subframe, and transmitting, based on a retransmission timing, the uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 11521634
    Abstract: A method for performing echo cancellation includes: receiving a far-end signal from a far-end device at a near-end device; recording a microphone signal at the near-end device including: a near-end signal; and an echo signal corresponding to the far-end signal; extracting far-end features from the far-end signal; extracting microphone features from the microphone signal; computing estimated near-end features by supplying the microphone features and the far-end features to an acoustic echo cancellation module including: an echo estimator including a first stack of a recurrent neural network configured to compute estimated echo features based on the far-end features; and a near-end estimator including a second stack of the recurrent neural network configured to compute the estimated near-end features based on an output of the first stack and the microphone signal; computing an estimated near-end signal from the estimated near-end features; and transmitting the estimated near-end signal to the far-end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Amin Fazeli, Mostafa El-Khamy, Jungwon Lee
  • Patent number: 11438880
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for amplitude shaping encoding, and specifically, for indicating boundaries in bitstreams encoded using amplitude shaping encoding. In some aspects, a transmitting device may insert, into an bitstream to indicate a boundary, a sequence of amplitude bits not associated with any patterns of bit values in a lookup table used for the encoding. In some other aspects, a transmitting device may monitor a length of the amplitude bits in a bitstream during the encoding and stop the encoding on information bits at an end of a current data unit responsive to the length reaching a threshold. In some other aspects, a transmitting device may monitor the length of the information bits and, for each data unit, determine whether a boundary is or would be reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian, Dung Ngoc Doan
  • Patent number: 11438903
    Abstract: A communications method is applied to a communications system including a backhaul node and a first wireless access device. The first wireless access device receives a first backhaul signal by using a first radio resource, and receives a first service signal by using a second radio resource. Herein, the first backhaul signal includes backhaul data sent by the backhaul node to the first wireless access device, the first service signal includes service data sent by a terminal to the first wireless access device, and the first radio resource is partially or completely the same as the second radio resource. Therefore, the first wireless access device may transmit the backhaul data and the service data on a radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11402890
    Abstract: A first server system is configured to communicate with a first client device through a first application executing on the first client device. The first server system determines that communication with the first client device through the first application has been lost due to the first client device entering an idle mode. The first server system receives a request from a second client device that triggers reestablishing communication with the first client device through the first application. In response, the first server system transmits a request to a second server system to wake the first client device from the idle mode. The first server system receives, from the first application on the first client device, an indication that communication has been reestablished between the first server system and the first application. The first server system transmits a control command to control the first client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
    Inventor: Viacheslav Kalmykov
  • Patent number: 11394415
    Abstract: A system for achieving a clean separation of signal and noise. The system comprises a plurality of electronic filters and specially designed radio transmitters and receivers. The system is configured to monitor a signal source for various parameters. The system observes the operating noise and the after-effect of the previous discrete signal. The system utilizes linear algebra equations to filter signals by frequency, shape, duration, or time position in order to more effectively separate the signal from noise, by forgoing the theoretical principle of maximum likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Brifman, Sergey Rassomakhin, Vladimir Shlokin
  • Patent number: 11329688
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system that comprises a non-DPD RF transceiver circuit that does not include digital pre-distortion (DPD) functionality and a DPD RF transceiver integrated circuit that includes DPD functionality. A first analog RF transmit signal output by the non-DPD RF transceiver circuit is received by a receive signal path of the DPD RF transceiver integrated circuit so that receive baseband data generated by the receive signal path is indicative of the first analog RF transmit signal. The receive baseband data generated by the DPD RF transceiver integrated circuit is received by a transmit signal path of the DPD RF transceiver integrated circuit. A second analog RF transmit signal output by the transmit signal path is a digitally pre-distorted version of the first analog RF transmit signal for amplification by the power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Braun, Christoph Gollinger
  • Patent number: 11272518
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a specified signal including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel and a controller that controls a reception of a demodulation reference signal for a downlink shared channel while assuming that the demodulation reference signal does not collide with the specified signal. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Keisuke Saito, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11245563
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for transmitting a reference signal, including: sending, by a network device to UE, information about a waveform, an antenna port, and a resource block, where the waveform includes an OFDM waveform or a DFT-s-OFDM waveform, the antenna port indicates a resource mapping pattern used by the UE to send or receive a reference signal, and in a symbol of the resource mapping pattern, a reference signal corresponding to the DFT-s-OFDM waveform is mapped in frequency domain in a comb-shaped manner, and a reference signal corresponding to the OFDM waveform is mapped to a frequency domain resource to which the DFT-s-OFDM waveform is not mapped; and sending, by the network device, the reference signal or receiving the reference signal on the resource block based on the information about the waveform, the information about the antenna port, and the information about the resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fengwei Liu, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 11218588
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for communicating in a telecommunication system. In particular methods and apparatus are disclosed for establishing communications in a telecommunication system having an access node (16) and a plurality of Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs) (21, 22, 23) each of which may be used to allow communication between the access node (16) and a respective Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) device (51, 52, 53), where communications on a plurality of lines (21, 21) are being performed using vectoring, and where it is desired to add one or more new lines (23) to the existing vectoring group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventor: Ian Horsley
  • Patent number: 11190286
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communication link adaptation and communication networks involving ground-based user equipment and non-terrestrial stations. A communication is received indicating signal quality of a first signal transmitted during a first transmission period and a plurality of fading losses associated with the first signal are obtained. A first fading loss and a second fading loss associated with the first signal are estimated for a future time, the first fading loss based on application of a first filter, and the second fading loss based on differences determined between the first fading loss and the plurality of fading losses. A signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio is calculated and includes at least one of the first fading loss and the second fading loss. A non-terrestrial station transmits, for a second time period, a second signal having settings determined based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DISH WIRELESS L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mehdi Alasti, Siddhartha Chenumolu, Mariam Sorond
  • Patent number: 11153874
    Abstract: Coverage enhancement of an eMTC system may be limited if an MTC device switches from transmission mode to reception mode using subframes that may be utilized for transmissions or receptions. The present disclosure provides a mechanism by which a device may determine a set of valid subframes for use in communicating via a backhaul link, an access link, and/or a direct link. The present disclosure also provides a mechanism by which a device may switch between different communication link operations using subframes unavailable for transmitting and/or receiving data. The apparatus may receive repetition configuration information from a base station in direct communication with a UE. The apparatus may determine whether the base station is a relay node. The apparatus may determine a repetition configuration for communication between the base station and the UE based at least on the repetition configuration information and whether the base station is a relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11115089
    Abstract: Radio apparatuses and methods for MIMO matrix phasing that may be used to toggle and/or weight the amount of MIMO processing based on the detected level of isolation between different polarizations of the system. Also described herein are apparatuses including auto-range and/or auto-scaling of a signal strength indicator to aid in precise alignment of the apparatus. Any of these apparatuses and methods may also include dynamic power boosting that adjusts the power (e.g., power amplifier) for an RF apparatus based on the data rate. These apparatuses may include a housing enclosing the radio device that includes a plurality of pin elements that may act as heat transfer pins and a ground pin for making a ground connection to the post or pole to which the devices is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: UBIQUITI INC.
    Inventors: Gary D. Schulz, Paul Odlyzko, David E. Rawlings
  • Patent number: 11075726
    Abstract: A receiver for detecting and recovering payload data from a received signal is provided. The receiver includes a detector, a frequency synchronizer, and a demodulator. The receiver is configured to detect the received signal. The received signal includes the payload data and signalling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data. The frequency synchronizer is configured to process the received signal so as to compensate for a frequency offset in the received signal. The demodulator is configured to detect the one or more first symbols and the one or more second symbols, to recover the signalling data from the one or more first symbols, and to use the signalling data to recover the payload data from the one or more second symbols. The sequence is a signature sequence associated with a transmitter of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventor: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Patent number: 11018425
    Abstract: A system and method for operating a system including at least one active electronically scanned array (AESA) element incorporates drain voltage amplifier control (DRAVAC) to maintain the power amplifiers of the AESA elements at a constant gain compression level. A processor of the AESA system may dynamically program, monitor, or adjust each individual array element or component thereof. As the RF output power of the power amplifiers varies, constant gain compression is achieved by dynamically adjusting the RF input power and drain voltage to the power amplifiers. An AESA element may incorporate built-in self-test circuitry for detecting faults in the power supply to the power amplifiers as well as calibrating and calculating RF output power for a given input power by controlling the bias of a pass device serving as the amplifier current source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Hageman, David W. Cripe, Robert A. Kertis, Bryan S. McCoy, Russell D. Wyse
  • Patent number: 11005519
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to isolation methods for full-duplex communication. In one example, a full-duplex antenna system includes a Tx (transmit) signal path including one or more elements each, means a power amplifier, one or more filters, and a Tx port of a Tx patch antenna operating at a Tx frequency band to transmit an outgoing signal to a satellite, the one or more elements each further including an Rx (receive) signal path including a low noise amplifier driven by an Rx port of an Rx patch antenna operating at an Rx frequency band to receive an incoming signal from the satellite, the Rx frequency band being separated by a guard band from the Tx frequency band, wherein the filters together with a physical separation between the Tx and Rx signal paths provide sufficient isolation to reduce coupling between the Tx signal path and the Rx signal path, allowing the full-duplex antenna system to operate in full-duplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: UTVATE Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan William Turkowski, Amin Reda, Siamak Ebadi, Andres Felipe Osorio
  • Patent number: 10951275
    Abstract: A system and method for two-way relaying with beamforming are provided. A method for relay operations includes estimating communications channels between a relay and communications devices coupled to the relay, storing data contained in the transmissions, storing data contained in the transmissions, precoding a transmission including a subset of the stored data with a precoding matrix, and transmitting the precoded transmission. The estimating is based on transmissions made by the communications devices in the subset of communications devices, and the precoding matrix is based on estimates of the communications channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Yazdan Panah, Philippe Sartori
  • Patent number: 10931334
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a beam recovery method and apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a beam recovery request to a network device in a first time window using at least one beam, where the beam recovery request is a scheduling request or a beam failure recovery request; and receiving, by the terminal device in the first time window using the at least one beam, a beam recovery request response sent by the network device, where the beam recovery request response is a scheduling request response or a beam failure recovery request response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Peng Guan, Xi Zhang, Ying Sun
  • Patent number: 10932294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink data in a spectrum sharing wireless communication system wherein, in order to enhance uplink transmission efficiency in an LTE-U service, clear channel assessment (CCA) is performed on a user terminal so as to consider the hidden node problem, and channel occupation based on an uplink signal of another terminal is considered, wherein applied are: a method for generating and transmitting a random backoff counter value at a base station so that all terminals can equally use a channel connection parameter needed for transmitting an uplink subframe in an unlicensed band; and a downlink controlling method for scheduling an uplink multi-subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jung Sun Um, Sung Jin Yoo, Hoi Yoon Jung, Seung Keun Park
  • Patent number: 10903952
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting a full duplex radio (FDR) transmission environment. A method by which a first UE receives a signal from a base station in a wireless access system supporting FDR transmission, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving a first reference signal from the base station; calculating first channel information on self-interference by using the first reference signal; receiving a second reference signal from the base station, and receiving a third reference signal from a second UE at the same time as the second reference signal; calculating second channel information from which the self-interference is cancelled, on the basis of the second reference signal, the third reference signal and the first channel information; and receiving the signal by using the second channel information and third channel information on a channel receiving the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kwangseok Noh, Jinmin Kim, Kukheon Choi, Jaehoon Chung, Kitae Kim
  • Patent number: 10797853
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-speed decision device that comprises a first branch and a second branch that are connected in parallel between a power supply end and a clock signal input end; wherein the first branch is used for providing a normal-phase input end, and the second branch is used for providing an inverted-phase input end; a first adjusting point and a second adjusting point are arranged; and an adjusting branch is arranged between the first adjusting point and the second adjusting point, and the adjusting branch is used for adjusting the response speed when the clock signal changes. The benefit of the invention is that the response time of the circuit is further improved, the resolution of the high-speed decision device is improved, and the clock and data recovery performance of the high-speed decision device is further improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Shi
  • Patent number: 10749581
    Abstract: Radio apparatuses and methods for MIMO matrix phasing that may be used to toggle and/or weight the amount of MIMO processing based on the detected level of isolation between different polarizations of the system. Also described herein are apparatuses including auto-range and/or auto-scaling of a signal strength indicator to aid in precise alignment of the apparatus. Any of these apparatuses and methods may also include dynamic power boosting that adjusts the power (e.g., power amplifier) for an RF apparatus based on the data rate. These apparatuses may include a housing enclosing the radio device that includes a plurality of pin elements that may act as heat transfer pins and a ground pin for making a ground connection to the post or pole to which the devices is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Ubiquiti Inc.
    Inventors: Gary D. Schulz, Paul Odlyzko, David E. Rawlings
  • Patent number: 10713956
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for establishing an ad hoc aircraft-to-aircraft mesh network to provide a redundant backup of critical flight information for an aircraft. Using a directional communication link of the aircraft-to-aircraft mesh network, the aircraft can transmit at least a portion its critical flight information to one or more receiving aircraft. The receiving aircraft may store the critical flight information of the transmitting aircraft on a local memory device. At least portions of the critical flight information may be reconstructed from the data stored on the receiving aircraft. In some examples, the receiving aircraft may retransmit the critical flight information to other aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Arthur Miller, Junyi Li, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 10708013
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods for reducing intra-cell interference during uplink MU-MIMO. An uplink grant that allocates a plurality of resource blocks is obtained. A first portion of the plurality of RBs that are overlapping with a set of RBs granted to a second UE is determined. A second portion of the plurality of RBs that are non-overlapping with the set of RBs granted to the second UE is also determined. A first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence is generated for the first portion of the plurality of RBs. A second DMRS sequence is generated for the second portion of the plurality of RBs, where the second DMRS sequence is different than the first DMRS sequence. An uplink transmission (e.g., PUCCH, PUSCH) is generated that includes RBs having different DMRS sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Yuan Y. Zhu, Wenting Chang, Xiogang C. Chen, Qinghua Li
  • Patent number: 10680754
    Abstract: A full-duplex relay and method of a telecommunication system having several sources, at least the relay and a recipient. The relay includes: a decoder estimating a message for each source, from successive received blocks transmitted during a current interval by a source, a decision module deciding which source messages were decoded without error from the estimated messages, a network encoder encoding a selection of the messages decoded without error and a transmitter transmitting a signal representative of the network encoded messages to the destination and a control signal indicating the selected messages. The decision module selects messages decoded without error at the input of the network encoder by only considering a return path from the destination indicating correct or incorrect decoding of messages. After each reception of a block, the decision module prevents the emission by the transmitter for a time period necessary to receive and decode the return path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Abdulaziz Mohamad, Raphael Visoz, Antoine Berthet
  • Patent number: 10673561
    Abstract: A BASE-T Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The transceiver includes a BASE-T Ethernet transmit circuit that employs a data framing module. The data framing module includes an input interface to receive Ethernet block data bits, and, forward error correction encoder is coupled to the logic to encode at least a first portion of the data bits to generate first error check bits. A Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder is coupled to the logic to encode at least a second portion of the data bits in accordance with a Reed-Solomon error code to generate second error check bits. A symbol mapper modulates the Ethernet block data bits in accordance with an SQ64 constellation comprising back-to-back PAM8 symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, LTD
    Inventors: Ramin Farjad, Paul Langner
  • Patent number: 10674445
    Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may transmit, in a packet to a base station, information associated with resource configuration/resource requirement corresponding to wireless uplink communications of the wireless communication device. The base station may assign resources to the UE based on the received information. The UE may receive an uplink grant from the base station, with the uplink grant specifying resources for use by the wireless communication device during the uplink communications based on the information previously transmitted to the base station by the wireless communication device. The UE may send the packet at the time a voice call with the UE is initiated, and/or the UE may transmit the information during voice calls in response the UE changing one or more resource configuration parameters during the voice call. The UE may use Robust Header Compression packets of various types to transmit the resource configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yingjie Zhao, Li Su, Sreevalsan Vallath, Wanping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10644783
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a Base Station (BS) for transmitting a control channel and a method and a User Equipment (UE) for receiving a control channel in a wireless communication system. The BS includes: a transceiver; and at least one processor configured to control the transceiver to receive Beam State Information (BSI) from the UE through at least one first beam, identify a second beam, based on the BSI, and control the transceiver to transmit a first BSI request to the UE through the second beam, identify a third beam, based on information on the at least one first beam, and determine whether control the transceiver to transmit the control channel to the UE through the third beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohan Kim, Namkoo Kang, Hyoyol Park, Keunchul Hwang
  • Patent number: 10554456
    Abstract: In a general aspect, a data communication circuit can include a transmitter configured to transmit a first digital bit stream via a first unidirectional isolation channel. The data communication circuit can further include a receiver configured to receive a second digital bit stream via a second unidirectional isolation channel. The first unidirectional isolation channel and the second unidirectional isolation channel can be defined on a common dielectric substrate. The data communication circuit can further include a crosstalk suppression circuit configured to provide at least one negative feedback signal to suppress crosstalk between the transmitter and the receiver due to parasitic capacitive coupling between the first unidirectional isolation channel and the second unidirectional isolation channel in the common dielectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Syed Enam Rehman, John Constantino
  • Patent number: 10531457
    Abstract: A wireless access point to control Carrier Aggregation (CA) over a wireless repeater chain. The wireless access point wirelessly exchanges network signaling with User Equipment (UE) over the wireless repeater chain using a number of repeater hops. The wireless access point processes the number of repeater hops to select a radio frequency for a CA Primary Component Carrier (PCC) and to select an amount of CA Secondary Component Carriers (SCCs) for the UE. The wireless access point wirelessly exchanges user data with the UE over the wireless repeater chain using the selected radio frequency for the CA PCC and using the selected amount of the CA SCCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Sreekar Marupaduga, John W. Prock
  • Patent number: 10531459
    Abstract: Various aspects of utilizing narrowband internet of things (NB IOT) communication are still under development. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the apparatus may be a user equipment (UE) using digital modulation for wireless communication via NB IOT communication in an unlicensed spectrum. The UE utilizes a plurality of downlink carriers in the unlicensed spectrum occupying at least a first minimum bandwidth by the plurality of downlink carriers and a plurality of uplink carriers in the unlicensed spectrum occupying at least a second minimum bandwidth with the plurality of uplink carriers. The UE performs communication using one or more of the plurality of downlink carriers and the plurality of uplink carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Yongbin Wei, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10523232
    Abstract: A system for converting a digital input signal into an analog output signal is provided, the system has at least three different signal paths with different but overlapping frequency ranges, at least three digital-to-analog converters, at least three analog filters, and a combiner unit. Each of the digital-to-analog converters is connected to at least one signal path, wherein the signals transmitted to the digital-to-analog converters are phase coherent. Each of the digital-to-analog converters is connected to a combiner unit, and each of the analog filters is associated with one of the digital-to-analog converters, wherein at least one of the digital-to-analog converters has a lower sampling rate than the sampling rate of at least two others of the digital-to-analog converters. Further, a method for converting a digital input signal into an analog output signal is shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Oomke Weikert
  • Patent number: 10477269
    Abstract: To make it possible to apply optimal decoding processing to an encoded stream including a plurality of pieces of encoded data having degree-of-priority information. An encoded stream including a plurality of pieces of encoded data having degree-of-priority information is acquired. Whether or not a decoding ability of a reception side is equal to or greater than a decoding ability of the own side is determined on the basis of decoding ability information of the reception side indicating to what number of degree of priority decoding can be performed. In a case where the decoding ability of the reception side is equal to or greater than the decoding ability of the own side, an encoded stream is transmitted. On the contrary, in a case where the decoding ability of the reception side is less than the decoding ability of the own side, a decoded stream including decoded data generated by subjecting the encoded stream to decoding processing is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Toba, Gen Ichimura, Satoshi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10445268
    Abstract: Methods for bidirectional communication and bidirectional communication buffers are described. In one embodiment, a method for bidirectional communication using first and second communication buses, which have opposite directions of data transmission, is described. The method for bidirectional communication involves detecting a signal from a first communication bus and buffering the detected signal and transmitting the buffered signal through a second communication bus while blocking data transmission from the second communication bus. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Jinxi Yan, Shuiwen Huang, Tinghua Yun
  • Patent number: 10439708
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system includes a master station device and radio frequency units. The radio frequency unite each convert a signal from each of base station system into an optical digital signal for transmission to the master station device. The base station systems establish communication by time division duplex scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Toshinori Doi
  • Patent number: 10419119
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system includes a master station device and radio frequency units which convert a signal from each of base station systems into an optical digital signal for transmission to the master station device. The base station systems establish communication by time division duplex scheme. The communication repeater system repeats communication between a mobile communication terminal device and each base station system via a corresponding one of slave station devices. A setter sets, as reference transmission/reception switching timing, a transmission/reception switching timing between the master station device and one of the radio frequency units corresponding to one of the base station systems which is first connected to the communication repeater system. A corrector corrects variation in the transmission/reception switching timing in accordance with the reference transmission/reception switching timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Kensei Kawabata
  • Patent number: 10397579
    Abstract: A position coordinate difference computing unit (5a to 5c) calculates position coordinate differences between position coordinates of the output digital signals and position coordinates of the input digital signals adjacent to the position coordinates. An FIR coefficient memory (13a to 13c) stores FIR coefficients of an FIR-LPF and outputs FIR coefficients corresponding to position coordinate differences between a fixed number of the output digital signals adjacent to the position coordinates of the output digital signals and the output digital signals. A control unit (11) supplies a group of the FIR coefficients and a group of the input digital signals corresponding to the respective position coordinate differences to the parallel FIR calculator (4) in predetermined order when the position coordinate differences corresponding to two or more different output digital signals are concurrently computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NTT ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Koike, Yasuhiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10383136
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a scheduling entity determines a first direction of a backhaul link traffic between a first scheduling entity and a second scheduling entity, and determines a second direction of an access link traffic between the scheduling entity and a user equipment (UE) based on the first direction of the backhaul link traffic to reduce potential interference caused by the access link traffic. The scheduling entity transmits or receives the access link traffic in the second direction utilizing at least one of a same transmission resource of the backhaul link traffic. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10374697
    Abstract: A telecommunications system may be configured to improve linearity and blocking. In some aspects, the telecommunications system may include a duplexer for coupling a common port to a receive path and a transmit path. A distributed low-noise amplifier having two or more separate active devices (e.g., amplifiers) may be positioned in the receive path. A filtering element (e.g., a band-pass filter) may be positioned between the two or more separate active devices. A signal may be routed by the duplexer through the distributed low-noise amplifier. The filtering element may attenuate transmit signals in the receive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Schmid, Alfons Dussmann, Thomas Kummetz
  • Patent number: 10355705
    Abstract: It is provided a signal processing system, comprising at least a first, a second and a third digital-to-analog converter (DAC); a processing unit configured for splitting a sampled signal into a first and a second signal corresponding to different frequency portions of the sampled signal, transmitting the first signal to the first DAC, splitting the second signal into a first and a second subsignal and transmitting the first subsignal to the second DAC and the second subsignal to the third DAC, the first subsignal corresponding to the real part of the second signal and the second subsignal corresponding to the imaginary part of the second signal; an IQ mixer configured for mixing an analog output signal of the second DAC and an analog output signal of the third DAC and a combiner for combining an analog output signal of the first DAC and an output signal of the IQ mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FĂ–RDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITĂ„T BERLIN
    Inventors: Christian Schmidt, Christoph Kottke, Volker Jungnickel, Jonas Hilt
  • Patent number: 10320431
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures for multi-stage cancellation of self-interference (SI) and joint cancellation of mutual-interference (MI) and residual SI in signals received by devices of a full-duplex multi-cell network are disclosed. In various examples, channel estimations and interference cancellation operations are performed utilizing multiple orthogonal training signals transmitted by network devices during a common over-the-air training period. Training signals derived from the orthogonal training signals during transmission are utilized to generate SI estimation information and perform at least a first SI cancellation operation on a received signal that includes at least first and second orthogonal training signals. The received signal and orthogonal training signals are then used to estimate a MI channel impulse response and a (residual) SI channel impulse response for use in joint MI/SI cancellation operations on further received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huan Wu, Eddy Shi Ning Hum, Wan Yi Shiu
  • Patent number: 10299135
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to coexistence of a cellular communications network technology (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and another wireless technology (e.g., WiFi) in a shared unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods that mitigate or avoid grabbing of an unlicensed, or shared, frequency band utilized by a wireless communications network node by a node of another wireless technology that operates according to a listen-before-talk scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Christopher Richards, Michael Petras, Jung-Fu Cheng
  • Patent number: 10270503
    Abstract: Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N?1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi